Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-31/Features and admins
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2|{{{1|Features and admins}}}|By seresin}}
=Administrators=
No editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week.
=Bots=
Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week:
Bot0612 (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot0612{{#if:6),
LivingBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot{{#if:5),
XLinkBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/XLinkBot{{#if:2),
Yobot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot{{#if:5),
ProcseeBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ProcseeBot{{#if:),
Philosopher-Bot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Philosopher-Bot{{#if:) and
SoxBot III (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot III{{#if:3).
ProcseeBot is a bot with an administrator flag. The bot collects lists of public open proxies, checks that they are world-usable, and if they are, it blocks them.
=Featured pages=
Seventeen articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Tropical Storm Keith (1988)}}, {{foa|Alaska class cruiser}}, {{foa|The Swimming Hole}}, {{foa|USS Iowa (BB-61)}}, {{foa|Northern Bald Ibis}}, {{foa|Operation Brevity}}, {{foa|The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II}}, {{foa|SS Minnesotan}}, {{foa|Woodes Rogers}}, {{foa|Nigel (Bishop of Ely)}}, {{foa|Mother's Milk}}, {{foa|Michael Tritter}}, {{foa|Hellingly Hospital Railway}}, {{foa|Fred Moosally}}, {{foa|Bruce Kingsbury}}, {{foa|Mozart in Italy}} and {{foa|Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy}}.
Twenty-two lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year}}, {{fol|Timeline of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season}}, {{fol|Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award}}, {{fol|List of UAAP Final Four results}}, {{fol|List of First Ladies of the United States}}, {{fol|List of 500cc/MotoGP Motorcycle World Champions}}, {{fol|List of World Series of Poker Main Event Champions}}, {{fol|List of Governors of Bombay}}, {{fol|United States congressional delegations from Indiana}}, {{fol|List of Vampire Knight episodes}}, {{fol|List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year}}, {{fol|Hot 100 number-one hits of 2008 (United States)}}, {{fol|List of number-one singles from the 1990s (UK)}}, {{fol|List of Solar System objects in hydrostatic equilibrium}}, {{fol|Numbered highways in Amenia (CDP), New York}}, {{fol|2008 Summer Olympics venues}}, {{fol|List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing}}, {{fol|Natalie Imbruglia discography}}, {{fol|List of FA Amateur Cup winners}}, {{fol|List of Bleach episodes}}, {{fol|List of Atlanta Braves Opening Day starting pitchers}} and {{fol|In Flames discography}}.
One topic was promoted to featured status this week: {{fot|USA PATRIOT Act, Title III}}.
One portal was promoted to featured status this week: {{fop|United Nations}}.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Banksia ericifolia, Hurricane Dog, Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état, Scout Moor Wind Farm, Music of Athens, Georgia, Samuel Johnson and Woodes Rogers.
=Former featured pages=
=Featured media=
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Australian Wood Duck, 1806 Submarine design, Bingham Canyon Mine, Red-eyed tree frog, F-22 Raptors, 1775 Map of Boston and Dogcart.
Three media files were featured this week:
{{*sound|Harry Truman Announcing Surrender Of Germany.ogg|Harry Truman announcing surrender of Germany|(nom)}}
{{*sound|John F Kennedy Address on the Buildup of Arms in Cuba.ogg|Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Address|(nom)}}
{{*sound|Caruso et al - È scherzo od è follia.ogg|È scherzo od è follia|(nom)}}
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Seven pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
File:Gustave_Doré_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_65_(Canto_XXXI_-_The_Titans).jpg|The Divine Comedy
File:Laughing kookaburra dec08 02.jpg|Laughing Kookaburra
File:Layla and Majnun2.jpg|Layla and Majnun
File:The battle of Mazandaran.jpg|Hamzanama
File:Mirror writing2.jpg|Islamic calligraphy
File:Mediterranean chart fourteenth century2.jpg|Portolan chart
File:White faced heron03.jpg|White-faced Heron
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